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EXITSWINGLEVERAGECARRYFRAUDNO RECOURSEBARRIEREXPERTISE
  • Cloud compute capacity 38 Moderate Capacity sold by the second: easy to buy, costly to over-commit, and increasingly limited by the power grid.
  • Silver 38 Moderate Gold's outline stretched along the volatility axis: the same no-yield carry, roughly twice the swing.
  Cloud compute capacity Silver
Exit difficulty 2 2
Volatility 4 4
Leverage 1 2
Carry cost 3 3
Fraud risk 2 3
Protection gap 3 3
Barrier to entry 1 1
Expertise needed 4 2
Difficulty 38 Moderate 38 Moderate
In a sentence Server time sold by the second, with a spot market, a futures-like reservation market, and a GPU shortage that turned it into a strategic commodity.Half precious metal, half industrial input — which is why it moves like gold with the volatility dial turned up.
Unit Instance-hour, or GPU-hour Troy ounce
Smallest realistic trade One second of one instance A 1oz coin, or one ETC share
Settlement Billed in arrears, monthly T+2 London OTC

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